Op 1/03/2012 3:19, Conrad Lawes schreef: > I have a unique requirement and I'm not sure if Bacula can do this. Here > goes: > > I presently have 12 servers ( mixture of Windows and Linux) in my backup > rotation. I plan to add a couple more clients soon. From Monday to > Thursday, I do incremental backups to disk. On Friday a full weekly backup > is started. This full backup is also written to disk. The full backup > normally completes some time on Sunday evening. The end time varies > depending on the amount data that is being backed up. On Sunday, I also > have scheduled Copy job that archives the resent full backup to tape for > offsite storage. The Copy Job takes 48-68 hours to complete. Our offsite > storage provider picks up the tapes on Wednesday mornings. > > My problem is that sometimes the Copy-to-Tape job (D2T) starts BEFORE the > Full backup (D2D) has completed. When this happens, I have to intervene and > change the Copy Job schedule to later time to ensure that all the jobs in the > full backup are captured. Instead of fiddling with the schedule settings to > find the ideal time, I would like a flexible ( or scriptable??) scheduling > option would start the Copy Job ONLY after the weekly full backup has > completed. In so doing, I don't have to spend my Sunday evenings > monitoring backup jobs. > > > Any suggestion? Maybe use different priorities for your weekly full and your copy jobs, and disallow the running of mixed priority jobs?
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